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The Scarlet Lunch. For decades, many U.S. kids without lunch money have been given low-grade substitute lunches and sometimes put to work. Five more minutes of mopping and you can get your shame sandwich! Clearly, there's a problem here ‚Ä¶ with poor kids not pulling their weight. These little moochers, sitting at desks being taught. Back in my day, the poor kids shoveled coal into furnaces at the carriage factory! Maybe it's time to stop giving free textbooks and chairs to these education queens. Emmie, can you read page 126 about Reaganomics for us? Actually, no. America: Keepin' it class-y! I'll take one. Loser. Poor.

For decades, the right has tried to brand environmentalism as "effeminate" and weak. "Manly". Fossil fuels. Diesel pickup. Trashing. "America First". "Feminine". Renewable energy. Prius. Recycling. Paris Accords. What if we branded environmental awareness as masculine? It's hard to be a tough guy ... when you can't breathe. I'll punch you in the face! Gasp! Wheeze! As soon as I find my inhaler. Trucks are for wimps. Real men us real muscled. Outta my way, softie! Don't be a "climate cluck"! This is a battle, and fossil fuel-addicted weaklings are running from it. Koch Industries. $. Time to man up! Tesla.

Donald Hump in "Tremendous Stamina". I tweet all night! Rates XXX for xxxtra sleaze. He stiffs workers and hides his tax returns. I'm not gonna give you any money shots. Form 1040. By losing nearly a billion in 1995, he's likely avoided paying income taxes ever since. I find every hole in the tax code! Humpa-humpa! U.S. tax laws. I can go for decades, baby! The ruse of being a great businessman while sticking it to the rest of us - Can he keep it up? Stay tuned for the exciting climax! Nov 8.

Science for $ale. So this exists at the Smithsonian: The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins. The exhibit suggests that humans can evolve their way out of danger from global warming. Future humans. Not to Smithsonian: Climate change is happening over decades. Let's do this with all our museums. The Jenny McCarthy Hall of Disease Eradication. Evolving out way to Measles resistance. Even better: Have a subatomic particle named after you for $30 million! The Trumpon. And don't worry about climate change - We'll soon have all-weather exoskeletons! This isn't so bad! David Koch CLXVII Jr. Jr.

I still didn't feel the need to talk with anyone about it. I hardly thought about Carl. For all I knew, he had forgotten about me. As I found out 33 years after the rape, this was not the case. Mid-2000s. It was a Saturday or Sunday afternoon late in December. My family and I had just returned from grocery shopping. I was picking up oranges that had spilled on the floor when the phone rang. I answered. Strangely, I immediately recognized the voice. Do you know who this is? It's Carl from college! It suddenly felt like three days had passes since the rape, not three decades. Yes, what do you want? ? (This is a long form cartoon. To see next panels, use "Image Number" box at left and enter 124881.)

March of Doom. Feb. 2003: People march on seven continents in an effort to stop the Iraq war. This will be a disaster. No blood for oil! Sept. 2014: Genocidal maniacs fill power vacuum in Iraq. Kurdish refugees flee. Who could known? Sept. 2014: People march around the world begging leaders to address climate change. No flood for oil! This will be a disaster. In a few decades: Welcome to Miami-Dade County. Dengue Fever-carrying mosquitoes. Who coulda known?

Slowpoke Ö And the U.N. has estimated that the planet's 7 billionth person will be born right about Ö now! Population boom! Wait - this just in! The 7 billionth person-to-be has just issued a statement! NNN. Nattering Noggins News. Speaking from an undisclosed gestation location, she says: "Even a pre-conscious proto-human such as myself knows your world is seriously fubared." Breaking: Angry baby. "I'm not even born yet, and I already have 300 industrial chemicals in my bloodstream, you piggish dolts." "There still probably won't be any jobs two decades from now." Furious fetus! "And if I do land some soul-sucking crap work, all the wealth I create will go to some selfish dipstick making 200 times more than me." "Honestly, why bother? Count me out! Or in, as the case may be. Signed, Baby 7B. Fumin' pre-human. In other news, presidential candidate Herman Cain has suggested that the wealthiest 1% be referred to as "your overlords."

Slowpoke. Dictator Do's and Don'ts. Are you a dictator facing a popular democratic uprising? Here's some helpful advice. Don't get too melodramatic. Maggots shall feast on your ocular jelly! Do make celebrity cameos. Dancing with the Tyrants. That Mubarak sure can Watusi. But don't be ridiculous. In all your decades of bloodshed and turmoil, what was your worst moment? When Kanye West insulted me. Today. Do write a revisionist autobiography. Muammar Perqins. Call me "Colonel Democracy". Who knows - Maybe they'll name an airport after you.

Slowpoke. Nation Stunned by Display of Competence. Our top story tonight: Millions of Americans are in shock that, after a decade of economic, environmental, and military FUBARS, we managed to do something right. OSAMASHOCK! "Emergency medical technicians are working round the clock to revive dazed and confused citizens." Bin Laden ... DEAD?!? We MUST have screwed the pooch somehow! Have a look at this cost-of-war counter. It'll bring you back to reality. "Dr. Alice Fernweaver, professor of western fubology, argues that killing Bin Laden is not necessarily at odds with our normal bumbling idiocy." The 21st century has been a nonstop series of clusterf#cks and epic fails resulting in the destruction of everything we touched. It was only a matter of time before we destroyed Bin Laden too. "Scientists predict that, at this rate, the next act of competence will occur in the year 2022." Our models indicate that that is the year we may finally stop bombing Afghanistan, or start addressing global warming. If we make it that long.

Slowpoke. Decade of Doom. Sometime in 1999. Oh yeah, you should totally see "The Blair Witch Project." Oasis. Hark! I am here to warn you about the future! The World Trade Center will soon be destroyed by airplanes. The '00s are coming! Endless war will ensue and the economy will collapse! Circuit City and Linens-N-Things stores will no longer exist! A beauty queen from Alaska will come close to running the world! People will spend their days doing something called Tweeting! The '00s are coming! But we WILL elect a black President ... Who is that guy? Just some whackjob! Oasis.

Slowpoke. Democrats are at each other's throats over the Presidential candidates. War-mongering triangulator! Overhyped health care demagogue! Obama. Hillary. As the race drags on, the DNC decides to unite the party with a medical miracle. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you ... Oballary! Now THAT'S change! Oballary's ability to simultaneously eat waffles WHILE giving stump speeches in small town diners allows it to cover twice as many campaign stops as usual. GMORF! Lemme tell you about hope. The Oballary campaign quickly wins over the prized Siamese twin and sci-fi nerd vote. Finally! Somebody who represents us! McCain is a Cylon! Republican strategists are stymied. It'd be the first female and black President! But it's also white and male! With decades of combined experience! What'll we do? Not to be outdone, McCain exhumes Ronald Reagan's head to win over wary wingnuts! Don't worry ... He's plenty conservative! You tell 'em, Ronnie!

Slowpoke. "Lilly Ledbetter suffered nearly two decades of pay discrimination at Goodyear. In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court denied her claim because she didnít file within 180 days of the initial discrimination, which occurred before she knew what was going on." Now Goodyear has billed her $3,165 for court-related expenses! You owe: $3,165. What's next from Goodyear? Tires for her. Exactly the same as other Goodyear tires, but they cost 30% more! Goodyear Lady Driver. The ALITO. Roll over famous women's rights supporters! Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Betty Friedan. Susan B. Anthony. Goodyear. ALITO. "Let Them Eat Rubber!" ... And be on the lookout for the new blimp! Goodyear. Tough Titties.